Compromise: a political and philosophical history

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: 'in politics we have an art...'; 2. No compromise about compromise; 3. The genealogy of compromise and its vagaries; 4. The dialectic of the individual; 5. Compromise and centripetal individualism; 6. Compromise and centrifugal individualism; 7. The forgotten road of representation: continental contractarian theories; 8. The British contract as com-promise; 9. Conclusions: compromising the art of compromise - the one-dimensional man.

Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1. The Opportunity; 1.2. The Challenges; 1.3. Compromise and Self-Representation; 1.4. Compromise and Political Representation; 1.5. The Structure of the Argument; 1.6. Preliminary Conclusions; 2 No Compromise about Compromise; 2.1. Compromise before Compromise?; 2.2. Compromise: From Method to Principle; 2.3. Compromise Without Compromising?; 2.4. The (A)Morality of Compromise; 2.5. Compromise as a National Feature?; 3 The Genealogy of Compromise and Its Vagaries; 3.1. Compromissum as Arbitratio.

3.2. Compromissum as Electio3.3. The French Méfiance about Compromise; 3.4. The Virtues of British Compromise; 4 The Dialectic of the Individual; 4.1. The Ambivalent Christian; 4.2. One Individual, Two Fora; 4.3. Two Fora, One Church; 4.4. One Res publica, Two Fora; 4.5. Individuals and Representation; 5 Compromise and Centripetal Individualism; 5.1. The Emergence of Centripetal Individualism; 5.2. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

Sovereignty: Between Will and Reason; 5.3. State versus People; 5.4. Centripetal Individualism and Hands-On Politics.

6 Compromise and Centrifugal Individualism6.1. "And the British Being Utterly Divided from the Whole World"; 6.2. The Common Weal of Individuals; 6.3. Collapsing the Two Fora; 6.4. Centrifugal Individualism, Compromise, and Contractualism; 6.5. Parliament and Ascending Representation; 6.6. Compromise as Political Practice; 6.7. The Glorious Compromise; 7 The Forgotten Road of Representation; 7.1. The French 'Contracts of Reason'; 7.2. Other Continental Versions of Contract Theory; 7.3. French Contractualism after Hobbes and Locke; 8 The British Contract as Com-promise.

8.1. Patriarchalism and Contractualism8.2. Republicanism and Contractualism; 8.3. The Advent of the 'New' Compromise in Politics; 9 Conclusions; 9.1. Compromise and the Two-Dimensional Man; 9.2. Compromise and the One-Dimensional Man; 9.3. Compromise and Civil Society; 9.4. Compromise and Ascending Representation; 9.5. Render Unto Compromise ... ; 9.6. The Future of Political Compromise; Index.